Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Time for Plan B

I was at Hobby Lobby today and had to make a difficult decision. I had started a craft project a few months ago and made a terrible mistake. I had been stalking the scrapbook section at my local Hobby Lobby for months waiting for certain page. Sadly, the spot remained empty. Today I decided to purchase a different paper today and hope it work well with the existing paper. What exactly is the project I am talking about? Well, it's tutorial time!

My mom had purchased letters at Hobby Lobby that spell out my name. The plain white boring letters where starting to look depressing and since I'm not much of a painter I chose to cover them with scrapbook paper.

Here's how I did it:
I began with my remaining letter and the new paper I chose.
I traced the M on to the back side of the scrapbook paper. (Make sure the back side of the letter is facing you as well, this is where I messed up the first time...)

Now you have a copy of your letter. You will modge podge the paper to the letter.I used two coats on the wooden letter before I applied the paper and another two on top of the paper to make it stick.

After the glue dried, I trimmed the overlap. I suggest using a small razor or scissors. 

Here is my finished M!


Here is all three letters together. I'm pretty proud of my myself for picking out a good matching paper.


Here's the far away view. Hope you enjoy this! 

 

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